Roulette History

Many years roulette remains one of the most popular and playable casino games. There are millions of gamblers which are playing this amazing game all over the world in land and online casinos. All of them are trying to find the best internet roulette or the most reputable land-based casino.

The appearance of roulette

The history of Roulette dates back to the 18 century, France. Blasé Pascal was working at the perpetual motion machine invention and introduced the first Roulette. They say that the Roulette game is a combination of such English games like Roly-Poly, E.O and Reiner.

The roulette game was played in a monastery at the beginning for fun and against boredom, then later made its way to the casinos of Paris, where it was considered to be a game for people with a certain level of glamour and intelligence.

By the year of 1842, when the first casinos were established in Monte Carlo by Francois and Luis Blanc as the legend states that the devil shared the secret of Roulette games by trading it for their souls.

Two centuries later, in 1843, two brothers Louis and François Blanc perfected the roulette wheel and introduced the game. They colored the pockets of the wheel into black and red, numbered them 1-36 and added the green zero slot.

Since 1796 the way of playing Roulette game didn't change. The JaquesLablee'snovel "La Roulette" includes the descriptions of this game.

Zero Slots

In 1843, Louis and Francois Blanc introduced Roulette with one "zero" for the purpose of competing with other casinos which offered the traditional "zero", "double zero" Roulette wheels.

Modern Roulette

The modern game of Roulette as it's known to be nowadays was first played in a Paris casino. Upon years passing by, in the early 1800's the game was introduced in America. The game established its popularity real quick, amongst the people the people whose life greatly depends on luck, patience and superstition.

The game received a great deal of fame in the West due to the miners and gold speculators, at the time of the Gold Rush period in the history of the United States.